Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

"I like my coffee black, like my soul” is a darkly humorous saying that has been printed on coffee mugs and GIFs. The line possibly comes from Hollywood. The book Tallulah—Darling of the Gods (1972) attributes “Just black — like my soul” to American actress Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968). The book Fifty Hollywood Directors (2015) attributes “Black – like my soul” to Ausrian-German filmmaker Fritz Lang (1890-1976).

“‘I like my coffee black....like my soul, like my poetry, like my life.’ -Anders Carslon” was posted to the newsgroup alt.gothic on March 1, 1995. “Just coffee. Black — like my soul” is a line in the novel City of Bones (2007) by Cassandra Clare.

Google BooksTallulah—Darling of the Gods:
An Intimate Portrait
By Kieran Tunney
New York, NY: Manor Books
1972
Pg. 76:
The waiter put the coffee on the table and withdrew to his listening post.

Google BooksFifty Hollywood Directors
Edited by Suzanne Leonard and Yvonne Tasker
New York, NY: Routledge
2015
Pg. 135:
Throughout his life Lang cultivated this almost caricatured self-image (responding to a question from an interviewer as to how he liked his coffee with the retort: ‘Black – like my soul’ ).